The Fabulous Invalid. A Play in Two Acts

Book Description

New York: Random House, 1938. First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Moss Hart, inscribed by the author: “For David Jackson - Cordially, Moss Hart.” The Broadway production of The Fabulous Invalid was directed by George S. Kaufman, written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, and starred Richard Gordon, Doris Dalton, Stephen Courtleigh, Walter Beck, and Vera Fuller Mellish. Illustrated throughout with black & white playbill cover art from various Broadway productions over the years, including ‘Captain Tinks of the Horse Marines’ with Ethel Barrymore, ‘The Darling of the Gods’ with Blanche Bates and George Arliss, ‘Show Boat’ by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern, ‘The Vortex’ by Noel Coward, ‘The Jest’ with John and Lionel Barrymore, etc. Fine fresh copy in a near fine only slightly used dust soiled dust jacket. A play about the history of the American theatre.

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